Unfortunately, the KDE Plasma shell crashes very often at the moment (my system is up to date). Mostly when I click with the mouse on the kickstart bar and, for example, bring another program to the foreground. The crashes add up to 10 per hour when I am actively working.
Are these known problems with the plasma shell? There are several bug reports about the Plasma shell crashing. There are several bug reports about the Plasma shell crashing.
Is there anything I can actively do to minimize the crashes?
I am also experiencing this issue, for example as I was writing this text it happened spontaneously, without me doing anything that could’ve triggered the bug.
It doesn’t impact performance very much, except for a slight drop in performance before the crash. I know about it only because the application bar disappears and the window of the current app stretches if it’s full-window, or the background goes black if it’s windowed.
Usually restarts itself in a matter of 10 seconds at most (unless I hit autoreport, at which it freezes - that’s a different thing though, that was here before this bug occurred, or at least I think so).
Auto-reporting bug is CPU intensive, especially the first time you use it unfortunately.
It launches a debugger to get a stacktrace and might need to download debug symbols along the way. @sitter is making a blog serie detailing its inner-working.
Please, please, please – change the topic’s title to indicate on which platform this is occurring.
Yes, in the KDE Bug Reporting system a search reveals that, there are 315 bugs reported related to Plasmashell crashing – the oldest dating back to 2017 – the newest confirmed bug reports are from this week.
But, please be aware that, not all system platforms are experiencing this issue – one has to be be carefully specific …
I am experiencing the same problem after upgrading to 6.1.4 yesterday. The crashing is severe and has disabled my computer. Plasmashell crashes ever 4 or 5 minutes sometimes every 30 seconds.
It crashes whenever I copy to the clipboard, whenever I minimize or maximize an app, whenever I open the launcher, whenever I try to edit the desktop. It even crashes without any user interaction.
Sometimes the crash reporter comes up, some times it does not and sometimes it comes up and it crashes as well.
I am writing this from my phone because KDE has disabled the pc.
How did this happen? Do KDE developers not do any basic testing before releasing updates? Does KDE not have any sort of validation process or procedures to review code before pushing it out? Has a rogue developer taken over KDE?
Yes in the KDE community we test are software and uses it daily. Here this wasn’t a KDE software that’s causing the issue.
Still a KDE dev fixed Qt.
Unfortunately we don’t manage Qt release or distros packages.
KDE Plasma maintenance updates are monthly in contrast.
Yes, that’s called beta release. I would encourage anyone with the time to participate.
Arguably rolling release act as beta for release-based ones. So Kubuntu and Fedora users can thank Arch users.
Clearly it does not affect all users the same way, I have Arch with plasma 6.1.4 and Qt 6.7.2, and I am not sure I experienced it once.
Still this crash is still affecting users and the fix might not be before end of September unfortunately. Sorry it affects you. We can try to ship earlier.
Plasma is free-software developed by passionate devs, most of which are benevolent as I am. Stay mindful of your expectations.
I have now performed a restore (from August 14, 2024) on one of my PCs affected by the bug in Qt when Plasma version 6.1.3 and Qt version 6.7.2 were still installed. As a result, the Plasma shell no longer crashed.
Unfortunately, the bug in Qt (as posted by Meven) will probably not be fixed until September, a long time with such a serious bug.
This is my current software status after the restore
Operating System: KDE neon 6.0
KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.4.0
Qt Version: 6.7.2
Kernel Version: 6.5.0-45-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
I have the same problem with KDE neon.
I already suspected the hardware and was about to replace it.
Lately KDE neon has become very unreliable.
I have now switched to EndeavourOs.
Despite the same Qt version, the OS runs well.
Would it be possible for Neon to introduce a Qt package with the fix cherry-picked onto 6.7.2? Otherwise, could a Qt package with the fix be posted here? (I might look into building a Neon-style Qt package later when I have more time).
